Spring is in The Air

Tomorrow is the last day of my first semester! Yesterday it hit me and I just got super excited about next semester and the change it’ll bring. It will be spring & so it will be warm! Which I am so ridiculously happy about. This means everyday can be just a little more like yesterday (Sunshine, tanning, fro-yo with my neighbors & shopping at Lulu belles (got some super cute sweat pants). Every semester, or school year, or new year I decide I want the following semester, school year, year, to be one of personal growth.. which is a little redundant.. but hey! I want this next semester to be one of personal growth ;).

I have some goals & because I love to make lists, (and love to cross things off lists even more) I made one:

1.       Get a job

2.       Enjoy my classes (Even statistics & human biology)- like .. really

3.       Take up yoga

4.       Pray like I mean it

5.       Hang out with random people

6.       Not make cookies (everyyyday).. and maybe eat some fruit once in awhile

7.       Keep up my Book of Mormon journal

8.       Wake up for class everyday (even the 7:30 Lab Wednesdays)

9.       Use the Ride Board (magical site I didn't realize existed till now) when I wanna visit Vegas instead of flying down

BANG!

In Conference Elder Uchtdorf talked about being grateful in our circumstances not necessarily FOR them. He also talked about how the reason the “endings” in this life are hard is because we are eternal beings and are “made of the stuff of eternity”.. he continues “endings are not our destiny”.. eternity is (*super excited- I want that to be NOW, face*) ! The endings in this life are not permanent.. he was probably referring largely to those who experience the passing of those they love, but this spoke to me and “pricked (Jarom:12)” my little short-sighted self into remembering that the changes that are happening in my life are absolutely what is meant to be & for my good. Endings are the beginnings of brighter things in store for us each personally. Our lives are divinely inspired by an eternal creator who is in the details of them.                                    

Life Application: Yes, my boyfriend is going home to work with a neurologist so he stops having seizures and then probably hitchhiking it to Spain this semester.. while I stay here. This means no more sneaking onto the top of buildings, wandering around campus, chilling in the rafters of the gym, getting kicked out of trees, or other various places we don’t belong in, watching movies way too late, & making random foods, with Austin. BUT.. here, is where I’m supposed to be. There is a reason for everything. AND next semester is still gonna be super fun (just a different kind of fun) and I’m gonna like it!